Subject: [harryproa] Re: Alternate rig styles
From: "fitzgeraldskhayyam" <omarkhayyam@operamail.com>
Date: 10/27/2008, 11:14 PM
To: harryproa@yahoogroups.com.au
Reply-to:
harryproa@yahoogroups.com.au

That sounds interesting, I'll give that a try too.
Thanks.
--- In harryproa@yahoogroups.com.au, Mike Crawford <jmichael@...>
wrote:
>
>
> If you did that, you'd be able to run a backstay, or rather,
another
> opposing forestay, on the other side, in order to keep forestay
tension
> on that jib. That should help a lot when beating.
>
> While you could have a roller-furling sail on each side, it would
also
> be possible to have a single jib on a rotating mast. The question
is
> probably which would take less time to shunt: rotating the mast and
> switching the jib sheets, or furling one foresail then unfurling the
> opposite one.
>
> In either case, the freestanding mast with huge jib would
eliminate
> compression loads on the structure, keeping some of the "keep it
light"
> harryproa philosophy intact. The mast itself would have to be
> redesigned, though, both to handle the larger moment at the boom as
well
> as the compression from the boom stays.
>
> - Mike
>
>
> Doug Haines wrote:
> >
> > I think you'd be better off taking the mast straight up out of the
> > hull and putting a boom out in front for the jib. Smae as harry's
but
> > boom only out front. There you have only fdiffrence frim standard
rig
> > is a big jib with no main and then see what diffrence is.
> >
> > Havng usedonly the schooner mainsails I look forward to trying an
> > easy/ballecstron rig some day.
> > BTW I found someoene who has given me a iwndsurfer with its rig
to put
> > onto harriette. It looks a bit small and I see a lot of people
(grown
> > ups ) wanting to use this craft. So hopfully it pushes (or is that
> > pulls) along OK.
> >
> > Seriously - how many of these are going to be used only by kids!
> >
> > Doug
> >
> >
>

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